Charmstone
- Museum number:
- 1-16582
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010016582
- Accession number:
- Acc.399
- Description:
- Spindle shaped, made of quartz. Very smoothly finished.
- Donor:
- Thomas T. Waterman
- Collection place:
- Churntown (historical), Shasta Lake, Shasta County
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Shasta; Churntown
- Culture or time period:
- Northern Wintun and Wintu
- Collector:
- Thomas T. Waterman
- Collection date:
- November 1910
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Charmstones
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- 1910
- Context of use:
- Said to have been carried for luck.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Loans:
- S1999-2000 #6: Rumsey Indian Rancheria (December 6, 1999–September 7, 2004)
- Legacy documentation:
-